At times when I attempt to down load a selection, the type of file, instead of being mp3, is something like php or cfm........I can't open this or move to Itunes. Is there anything that I can do about this?

Rather than "double down", the proposed tactic more closely resembles a Martingale gambling scheme, characterized by doubling one's bet after each loss event, hoping to eventually win and recapture losses. Casinos love this type of scheme, as the bettor sooner or later reaches the table limits or the limits of his bankroll.

Several posters have remarked that Bonds had already compiled HOF quality stats before beginning PED's in 1998. I want to note that his stats at that time were about 440 HR and a lifetime BA of .288. He also had an almost complete failure to succeed in pressure situations, and was less than average as a team leader or even as a team mate. I don't think that these stats would get him in. If you projected his stats as if he closed out his career without PED's, one would guess at 550 HR and a .285 BA. I would think that those stats would be sufficient to get him in the Hall.

I've listened today to local sports talk radio about this issue, and the've rehashed the thing about Gaylord Perry cheating, and the everybody does it thing and the "most of the fans don't care" thing. What kind of set me off was someone again making the argument that "of course I can understand a marginal player taking steroids so that he could make the show and make some money. Everyone has to provide for his family. Otherwise he'd be cooking fries down at the Burger King."

How about Player B, who was beaten out for that roster spot. He was clean, and now he's cooking fries while player A gets $900,000 as a bench player. Is he stupid for not using too?......He could out play player A if he did. That would bump player C out of a roster spot.

This is what we all know goes on, in other sports as well. This makes me more upset that the risk that Bonds might break Aaron's record. This is an insidious evil that either must be eradicated (or baseball will totally lose my fanship that has persisted for many years) or we can throw our hands in the air and declare that all players must take steroids in order to level the playing field.

I have thought that one thing that might help to depress the use of PED's is to realize that if one member of a team is cheating, then the team is cheating, and the team should be punished if this is discovered. For the major league team, a 5 million fine for the first offense, doubling for any successive violations might make major league owners interested in policing their own houses. For violations by players in their minor league systems, maybe start with a million dollar fine, and double that for additional violations.

I try to buy locally grown vegetables whenever I can, but that is not as much as one would think, though I live in a rural, agricultural area. My main aim is to find locally grown tomatoes, but there are also, in season, onions, okra, cucumbers, potatoes, corn, squash, and not a whole lot else. Along the highways there are produce stands and "farmer's markets" that obtain their produce by making trips to the Dallas Farmer's Market, where much of the goods come from the Rio Grande Valley or from Mexico, pretty much typical supermarket fare.

I am certain that the locally grown tomatoes are both fresher, naturally ripened, and from superior varieties than are the long distance tomatoes, but for a lot of other vegetables, I'm just not sure. Dried grains and dried beans and such might just as well come from Mars.....they would be just as good and nutritious. I imagine that other local veggies are better too, but this is just an anecdotal, impressionistic judgement, and I don't know that it would stand up to formal double blind studies.

I think that the local food emphasis is good, but it should focus on the produce items that would make the most difference to go local. And still, I think that for most of our population, produce on our tables will continue to overwhelmingly be shipped in from long distances, and grown in massive produce farms. Surely some pressure could be brought to influence these farms to give taste and nutrition attention equal to what they give to shipability, shelf life, and cosmetic prettiness.

I was not familiar with this guy, although I was aware of what the Hoover Institute is. To me, he doesn't seem significantly different from Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, and the rest of the right wing cheerleaders. His argument, like theirs, is 25 percent lies, 25 percent distortion, and 50 percent bullshit.